Monday, 15 June 2015

July 2015

Failsafe to Healing

Time: 10 am - 1.30 pmDate: Friday 24 July 2015Cost: $90Venue: Peakhurst SydneyTransitioning from failsafe to grainfree healing diet - how to get startedMaking basic fermented vegetablesHow to make brothHow to make healing snacks using gelatinHealing meals for the family - how to accommodate different tolerancesYou will take home a jar of sauerkraut you make...Bring a list of your family's favourite failsafe meals so we can look at how to modify them to include more healing

This class is suitable for those currently on a limited diet and looking at how GAPS / Paleo / Grainfree diet may help them increase their tolerance by healing their gut

Places are strictly limited to 5 per class. Please email kerstenskitchen@gmail.com if you are interested. Full payment will be required to confirm your spot.

August 2015

Grainfree Meals

Time: 10 am - 1.30 pmDate: Friday 21 August 2015Cost: $90Venue: Peakhurst SydneyHealing meals for the familyMaking basic fermented vegetablesHow to make brothBaking with coconut and nut floursYou will take home a jar of sauerkraut you make...This class is suitable for those currently looking at how GAPS / Paleo / Grainfree diet may help them increase their tolerance by healing their gut. Also suitable for those following a gluten and dairy free lifestyle wanting to learn some new recipes.

Places are strictly limited to 5 per class. Please email kerstenskitchen@gmail.com if you are interested. Full payment will be required to confirm your spot.

All classes are gluten free and dairy free with the exception of ghee. If you have a dairy allergy, please advise and we will use another fat in meals. Eggs will be used in baking.We will be using the Thermomix to help us with our creations, you can achieve the same using a food processor. All cooking will be using stove, oven and slow cooker.Our home is fragrance free so please refrain from wearing perfume to the class.

Saturday, 18 April 2015

May 2015

Failsafe to Healing

Time: 10 am - 1.30 pmDate: Saturday 9 May 2015Cost: $90Venue: Peakhurst SydneyTransitioning from failsafe to grainfree healing diet - how to get startedMaking basic fermented vegetablesHow to make brothHow to make healing snacks using gelatinHealing meals for the family - how to accommodate different tolerancesYou will take home a jar of sauerkraut you make...Bring a list of your family's favourite failsafe meals so we can look at how to modify them to include more healing

This class is suitable for those currently on a limited diet and looking at how GAPS / Paleo / Grainfree diet may help them increase their tolerance by healing their gut

Places are strictly limited to 5 per class. Please email kerstenskitchen@gmail.com if you are interested. Full payment will be required to confirm your spot.

Grainfree Meals

Time: 10 am - 1.30 pmDate: Friday 22 May 2015Cost: $90Venue: Peakhurst SydneyHealing meals for the familyMaking basic fermented vegetablesHow to make brothBaking with coconut and nut floursYou will take home a jar of sauerkraut you make...This class is suitable for those currently looking at how GAPS / Paleo / Grainfree diet may help them increase their tolerance by healing their gut

Places are strictly limited to 5 per class. Please email kerstenskitchen@gmail.com if you are interested. Full payment will be required to confirm your spot.

All classes are gluten free and dairy free with the exception of ghee. If you have a dairy allergy, please advise and we will use another fat in meals. Eggs will be used in baking.We will be using the Thermomix to help us with our creations, you can achieve the same using a food processor. All cooking will be using stove, oven and slow cooker.Our home is fragrance free so please refrain from wearing perfume to the class.

June 2015

Failsafe to Healing

Time: 10 am - 1.30 pmDate: Friday 12 June 2015Cost: $90Venue: Peakhurst SydneyTransitioning from failsafe to grainfree healing diet - how to get startedMaking basic fermented vegetablesHow to make brothHow to make healing snacks using gelatinHealing meals for the family - how to accommodate different tolerancesYou will take home a jar of sauerkraut you make...Bring a list of your family's favourite failsafe meals so we can look at how to modify them to include more healing

This class is suitable for those currently on a limited diet and looking at how GAPS / Paleo / Grainfree diet may help them increase their tolerance by healing their gut

Places are strictly limited to 5 per class. Please email kerstenskitchen@gmail.com if you are interested. Full payment will be required to confirm your spot.

Grainfree Meals

Time: 10 am - 1.30 pmDate: Saturday 27 June 2015Cost: $90Venue: Peakhurst SydneyHealing meals for the familyMaking basic fermented vegetablesHow to make brothBaking with coconut and nut floursYou will take home a jar of sauerkraut you make...This class is suitable for those currently looking at how GAPS / Paleo / Grainfree diet may help them increase their tolerance by healing their gut

Places are strictly limited to 5 per class. Please email kerstenskitchen@gmail.com if you are interested. Full payment will be required to confirm your spot.

All classes are gluten free and dairy free with the exception of ghee. If you have a dairy allergy, please advise and we will use another fat in meals. Eggs will be used in baking.We will be using the Thermomix to help us with our creations, you can achieve the same using a food processor. All cooking will be using stove, oven and slow cooker.Our home is fragrance free so please refrain from wearing perfume to the class.

Thursday, 4 December 2014

Christmas eBook Sale

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Prefer a printed copy... copy your ebooks onto a memory stick and take to Officeworks. They will print and bind for youOffer available until 24 December 2014 and is not available for single book purchasesMerry Christmas and Happy Baking!

Tuesday, 30 September 2014

Progress update: 18 months on for the children,

2 years on for me

The twists and turns of healing just astonish me... I would never have thought we would have had such a dramatic turn around in our diets over the last 2 years. When I look back and read about where we started and then the progress just over a year ago, I am so excited to share with you how far we have all come...Here are the previous posts to give you a history:http://www.kerstenskitchen.com.au/2012/12/our-story-to-healing.htmlhttp://www.kerstenskitchen.com.au/2013/01/childrens-journey.htmlhttp://www.kerstenskitchen.com.au/2013/08/update-childrens-healing-journey-six.htmlMy children grew up eating a very small selection of foods... initially just rice and lamb, then they were able to tolerate celery, choko, chicken, potato. We used Nuttelex and Sunflower oil for cooking. Luckily so many things can be made using those ingredients and you can find all the recipes in my first couple of books.When we started biomed we were able to add in some moderate salicylates - cucumber and carrot mainly. But we got stuck, I could never increase from one quantity a day... any more and they reacted. So I decided to try adding in small amounts of healing foods (which is discussed in detail in the above posts). The progress was exciting but again we got stuck...So we decided to try homeopathy. This was not a quick fix, it has been challenging but we have seen amazing healing. I think this has been the key for us.I continued trying to increase the children's tolerance to foods and we began seeing success! I wanted to keep adding more healing foods:

BROTH

We cooked everything in broth... to cook rice pasta, I would add a cup of broth to the cooking water; to make savoury mince, I would add broth instead of water; to make sushi rice I would add a cup of broth to the cooking water

FATS - GHEE and COCONUT OIL and TALLOW

We continued to cook all meat in ghee. Tallow was added and we now cook all roast veg in that. Coconut oil is used extensively in baking.

BAKING - COCONUT FLOUR and NUTS

Slowly the kids were introduced to cookies and cakes baked with nut flours and coconut flour. The cookies were very well received by all. My girls loved the cakes, but my son was very attached to his egg free rice based cupcakes. I was really pleased when he eventually (after many many efforts of sampling) he declared he liked them and refused to eat the rice based baking... yay!

FERMENTS and KEFIR

We don't use Kefir and fermented drinks often anymore, but we do eat sauerkraut and other fermented vegetables. My girls and I enjoy them very much, my little man not so much... one day he will join in :)

SALICYLATES and AMINES

They tolerate everything now... slow cooked meats, all manner of fruit and vegetables. They even eat tomato several times a week... Very exciting!

FODMAPS

We had major issues with all the groups of FODMAPS. So these were the last foods to try. At first I added leeks to our broth when cooking... then when that was tolerated, I added them to meals where broth was used, eg casserole, soup, bolognaise. Then I started adding in Brussels sprouts to meat balls, casseroles, bolognaise. Now I add lentils to dishes as well. With fruits, we started with low fodmap ones and now have progressed to include the others too. They are so excited that this month we introduced apple with success. Started with a tiny piece, now they have a whole one each day. (Last time we challenged apple, we landed in hospital for a week)

TIMING

Healing started slowly but about a year in, it jumped into top gear and progress was really fast. In the early days we would have a tiny portion once a week, then every three days, then every second day, then daily. Once ok, we would do another food.

WHAT DO WE AVOID NOW

We are coeliacs, so we avoid all gluten. We choose to avoid soy and corn. I have challenged corn a couple of times for the children and it has always been a very big fail.We avoid cane sugar - we use coconut sugar and rice syrup as sweeteners.We minimise grains but still enjoy them every so often. They are no longer an every day food. I use buckwheat and quinoa often.We avoid beef - still causes bleeding bowels.

DINNER

spaghetti bolognaiseslow roasted lamb with lots of vegroast chicken with lots of veg and Yorkshire puddingmeatballs and pastachicken schnitzel and chipschicken and vegetable casserolestir fry

SWEET TREATS

All baking is grain free and made with either coconut flour or nut meals and recipes can be found in my Grain Free and School Lunchbox books.chocolate from Loving Earthchocolate cake with frostingvanilla coconut cupcakesmacadamia cupcakespikeletscookiesmarshmallowsjelly jubes (pomegranate juice and gelatin)bliss ballscoconut icecream (plain or fruit flavoured)ice blocks (coconut water and fruit)potato chipsIt has been a crazy healing journey and each path has been important, even when I felt it was not the right path, each taught me so much and introduced me to lovely women who have been my support network. So take each step as it comes, give something a try and if it isn't right for your family, jump back up and try something else. We are all different and what works for one, will not work for all. Good luck on your journey xo

Variations:

Use 2t cinnamon instead of the ginger for a cinnamon cookie (my favourite!)
Use 2t vanilla instead of the ginger for a plain cookie
Omit the ginger and use one of the above variations and add half a block of chopped chocolate to the mix for a choc chip cookie (we use Loving Earth Creamy Mylk Chocolate)